Cited in Luis O. Gomez, “Nonviolence and the Self in Early Buddhism,” in Kenneth Kraft, ed., Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), 46. Return to text

Lee Yearley, “Three Views of Virtue,” in Daniel Goleman, ed., Healing Emotions (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1997), 15–16. Return to text

Tworkov, “Buddhism without Walls: An Interview with Robert Aitken Roshi,” 45. Return to text

Helen Tworkov, Zen in America: Five Teachers and the Search for an American Buddhism, rev. ed. (New York: Kodansha International, 1994), 263. Return to text

Tworkov, “Buddhism without Walls: An Interview with Robert Aitken Roshi,” 47. Return to text

Donald S. Lopez, Jr., “On the Interpretation of the Mahayana Sutras,” in Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed.,
Buddhist Hermeneutics (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988), 66. Return to text

See Michael Pye, Skillful Means (London: Duckworth, 1978). Another English translation of upaya is “expedient means,” which carries both positive and negative nuances. That rendering is justified by uses of the term in the Lotus Sutra and other texts. Return to text

Alan Sponberg, “Green Buddhism and the Hierarchy of Compassion,” in Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, eds., Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 370. Return to text

Cited in Damien V. Keown, “Are There Human Rights in Buddhism?” in Damien V. Keown, Charles S. Prebish, and Wayne R. Husted, eds., Buddhism and Human Rights (Surrey, England: Curzon Press, 1998), 26–27. Return to text

Keown, “Are There Human Rights in Buddhism?” 15–41. Return to text

Rita M. Gross, Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Contemporary Social and Religious Issues (New York, Continuum, 1998), 155. Return to text

Claude Whitmyer, “Using Mindfulness to Find Meaningful Work,” in Whitmyer, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work, 262–3. Return to text

Robert Aitken, “Sorting the Wisdom of Words: Milan Kundera and the Four Noble Abodes,” in Sivaraksa et al, Socially Engaged Buddhism for the New Millennium, 447. Return to text

The Dalai Lama, “The True Source of Political Success,” in Shambhala Sun 6:3 (January 1998), 38. Return to text

Thich Nhat Hanh, “The Sun My Heart,” in Kotler, Engaged Buddhist Reader, 169. Return to text

Martin Collcutt, Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), 31. Return to text

Personal correspondence from Jacqueline Stone, May 24, 1999. Stone devotes a chapter to Nichiren in her forthcoming book Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (University of Hawaii Press). Return to text

H. Byron Earhart, Religion in the Japanese Experience: Sources and Interpretations (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1997), 94; Hajime Nakamura, Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples, rev. ed. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), 443. Return to text

Commenting on the work of the Buddhist teacher Honen (1133–1212), Nichiren wrote: “It can lead its author nowhere but to the lower hell.” Ryusaku Tsunoda, Wm. Theodore de Bary, and Donald Keene, eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), 218. On attitudes toward women, see Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyodan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 205. Return to text

Daigan and Alicia Matsunaga, Foundation of Japanese Buddhism, vol. 2 (Toky Buddhist Books International, 1976), 154. Return to text

Bardwell Smith, review of Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King, eds., Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 67:2 (June 1999), 500–501. Return to text

Personal correspondence from Jacqueline Stone, May 24, 1999. Return to text

Robert Thurman, “Tibet and the Monastic Army of Peace,” in Kraft, Inner Peace, World Peace, 77–90. Return to text

Bill Devall, “Ecocentric Sangha,” in Allan Hunt Badiner, ed., Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990), 158. Return to text

King, “They Who Burn Themselves for Peace: Buddhist Self-Immolation,” 287. Return to text

Stephanie Kaza, “Can We Keep Peace with Nature?” in Leroy S. Rouner, ed., Religion, Politics, and Peace (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999), 165–184. Return to text